Jiantao Jiao
Director Of Research & Distinguished Scientist at University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolJiantao Jiao is a research-driven AI leader and Berkeley professor who directs NVIDIA’s research efforts as a Distinguished Scientist, focusing on end-to-end large language model systems from data curation and pretraining to reward learning and inference infrastructure. With a PhD from Stanford and over a decade of experience, he blends academic rigor with product-minded engineering, having co-founded Nexusflow AI to translate research into deployed capabilities. His work sits at the intersection of theory and scale—advancing RL and fine-tuning techniques while working closely with engineers to democratize generative AI. Based in Berkeley, he is known for bridging lab breakthroughs and industry-grade systems, often pushing optimizations that reduce inference cost without sacrificing model capability.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Stanford University
Github Skills (34)
mutual-information8
portable7
java7
webdataset7
gradient7
machine-learning7
ranking7
data-augmentation7
scalable6
entropy6
science6
react6
information-theory6
ieee6
distributed-systems6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
EEthinker/Universal_directed_information
Jan 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
EEthinker/JVHW_Entropy_Estimators
Jan 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
distributionsentropypythonestimatorsinformation-theory
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